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Dunia Patut Fahami Erti Sebenar Di Sebalik Gegak Gempita Sambutan Tahun Baru 2014

Dunia Patut  Fahami Erti Sebenar Di Sebalik Gegak Gempita Sambutan Tahun Baru  2014

  

Setiap kali tibanya hujung tahun maka sibuklah kita dengan pelbagai persiapan menyambut ketibaan tahun baru.  Bagi yang berada, menyambut kedatangan tahun baru di luar negara serentak dengan  percutian musim sejuk walaupun para warga Eropah sibuk melarikan diri mereka dari cuaca sejuk di negara mereka sendiri dengan bercuti ke Malaysia., Thailand, Indonesia, Singapura dll

Apa yang kita sambut sebenarnya?

Pelbagai fakta dan intrepretasi yang boleh kita perolehi mengenai latar belakang bulan bulan Januari sehingga Disember. Namun ,cukuplah sekadar disebut secara ringkas buat renungan kita semua.

 Seluruh dunia termasuk negara negara yang majoriti penduduknya menganuti agama islam akan menyambut ketibaan tahun baru tuhan tuhan Roman .  Nama tuhan tuhan Roman  akan berulang kali kita sebut setiap bulan pada tahun berikutnya nanti secara sengaja mahupun tak sengaja.

Contohnya bulan Januari  mendapat namanya dari Tuhan Janus yang juga dikenali sebagai 'Sky God ' iaitu tuhan langit di mana kedatangan tuhan langit di sambut dengan mencerahkan langit dengan bunga api berwarna warni dan mercun.

Bulan Februari pula berasal dari    februa  yang membawa maksud "means of purification."

Manakala bulan Mac iaitu Martius berasal dari Mars yang membawa makna sebagai

'Tuhan Peperangan Roman' (the Roman God of War)

 Untuk bulan April ada beberapa pendapat termasuk salah satunya dari Jakob Grimm yang mengatakan nama bulan April berasal dari   ' a god or hero named Aper or Aprus'

Seterusnya nama bulan Mei atau Maius berasal dari Tuhan   Wanita  yang bernama Maia dan Julius Ceasar memilih untuk menamakan dirinya sendiri bagi nama bulan Julai.

Jadi tidak hairanlah perangai anak anak bangsa kita menjadi terlampau liar sewaktu menyambut tahun baru kerana mereka tidak menyedari yang mereka sedang menyambut tahun baru Tuhan Tuhan agama lain.  Merempit, mabuk, pembaziran makanan/minuman,hiburan keterlaluan semuanya membawa kepada keuntungan berlipat ganda golongan peniaga namun secara langsung membawa kepada banyak masalah masalah sosial yang tidak di ingini oleh negara kita.

Meriahnya cuti umum tahun baru telah di salah faham oleh banyak golongan yang sepatutnya perlu membuat sedikit kajian apa itu erti 'holy day'—iaitu hari suci kepada penganut agama tertentu.    Justru tak hairan lah mengapa ramai  antara kita yang menjadi malas pada hari cuti umum dan membiarkan orang lain yang mengaut keuntungan bila mereka memilih untuk bersuka ria, bersantai santai, berhibur pada waktu cuti umum.

Apakah 1 hb Januari adalah hari suci(Holy Day)  bagi  kebanyakkan kita yang beragama   Islam? Banyak aktiviti berfaedah yang lebih produktif dapat dilakukan sempena cuti umum tahun baru selain dari berseronok seronok.

Seterusnya,adalah lebih malang lagi bila malam cuti tahun baru Maal Hijrah/Awal Muharam juga tiada bezanya yang   biasanya turut digunakan untuk merempit & merewang rewang hingga ke Subuh tanpa arah tujuan.  Kesan sambutan  'holy day'   sempena  setiap kali sambutan Krismas dan tahun baru di Jalan Bukit Bintang Kuala Lumpur pernah di paparkan oleh media elektronik dengan lautan sampah   serta paparan anak anak muda kita bersuka ria tanpa mengendahkan pekerja pekerja Alam Flora yang sibuk membersihkan sampah sarap.dengan kesesakan lalu lintas di Jalan P Ramlee.   

Allah swt telah mengejutkan dunia  pada 26hb Disember 2004 dengan membawa Tsunami ke Aceh, Phuket, Langkawi, Kuala Muda , Balik Pulau dan lain lain tempat di serata dunia termasuk hingga ke benua Afrika   yang telah menyebabkan YAB Perdana Menteri ketika itu mengarahkan supaya sambutan tahun baru 2005 dibatalkan walaupun ketika itu di sekitar Jalan Bukit Bintang ramai yang  tetap meneruskan pesta tahun baru dengan memancutkan buih buih serta minuman keras  .   Tidak cukupkah pengajaran yang kita perlu ingat dari Tsunami, masihkah orang kita 'galak' nak menyambut tahun baru  pelbagai tuhan tuhan Roman.

Teringat penulis kepada sebuah telemovie awal tahun 90an berjudul  ' Selamat Tahun Baru YB' lakonan Seniman Datuk Rahim Razali, Uji Rashid bersama Abu Bakar Omar   dimana Datuk Rahim Razali sebagai YB Menteri telah meminta isterinya  yang dilakunkan oleh Seniwati Uji Rashid yang beria-ia   hendak menjemput tetamu menyambut pesta tahun baru  supaya di gantikan dengan majlis tahlil kenduri doa selamat. Mungkin telemovie karya Allahyarham Zain Mahmood itu patut di ulang siar oleh pihak stesen TV.

Bagi keberkatan berterusan punca Rezeki yang kita semua cari secara Halal, sudah tiba masanya untuk semua kita untuk turut menggunakan nama nama bulan dalam

Taqwim kita seperti Muharram (Bulan Pertama Tahun Hijrah), Safar (Bulan kedua Tahun Hijrah), Rabiul Awwal (Bulan Ketiga Tahun Hijrah), Rabiul Akhir (Bulan Ke empat Tahun Hijrah) , Jumada Awwal (Bulan Ke Lima Tahun Hijrah), Jumada Akhir (Bulan Ke Enam Tahun Hijrah), Rajab (Bulan Ke Tujuh Tahun Hijrah), Sha'ban (Bulan Ke Lapan Tahun Hijrah), Ramadhan(Bulan Ke Sembilan Tahun Hijrah), Syawal (Bulan Ke Sepuluh Tahun Hijrah), Dzul Qaedah (Bulan Ke Sebelas Tahun Hijrah) dan Dzul Hijjah (Bulan Ke Dua Belas Tahun Hijrah)

Kita juga seharusnya lebih teliti dalam menggunakan terma terma seperti 'Holy Day' (hari suci), 'Calendar' ( dimana Hari Kalends adalah permulaan bulan baru yang di dedikasikan kepada Juno Tuhan Wanita Utama Roman Pantheon )

 Bagi keberkatan & kesejahteraan semua lebih lebih lagi Malaysia yang beraspirasi untuk menjadi sebuah 'global hub for Islamic Banking' dimana kepekaan terhadap elemen elemen ini akan amat dihargai oleh ahli ahli korporat &   pelabur dari Timur Tengah. Kita seharusnya nampak ikhlas bila cuba membawa 'petrol dollars' dari Timur Tengah yang berjumlah dalam bentuk Trillion USD serta peka   pada apa yang sepatutnya kita peka supaya kita benar benar dapat merasai faedah pelaburan FDI (Foreign Direct Investment) Timur Tengah di rantau ini dan bukan sekadar tempias .

 Mengambil kira penderitaan musim sejuk dan kelaparan rakyat Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestin, Syria dll  dimanakah kewajaran kita untuk membazirkan jutaan ringgit bermain mercun mercun serta bunga api bagi menyambut tahun baru kedatangan tuhan tuhan orang orang Roman. Akhir sekali, apakah tahap kewarasan kita jika kita bersedia membazir begitu banyak wang untuk menyambut tahun baru tuhan orang roman di kala peningkatan kos sara hidup dan harga barang barang keperluan yang secara langsung melanggar beberapa akujanji (undertaking) kempen BN  kepada rakyat yang diwar warkan di media perdana sempena PRU 13 baru baru ini.  Wallahualam.

  

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Peguambela & Peguamcara

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Congressional Budget Talks to Begin Amid a Sea of False Assumptions

By ALBERT R. HUNT | BLOOMBERG VIEW

Published: October 27, 2013

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WASHINGTON — The U.S. budget deficit is worse than ever. Taxes already have been raised, so efforts to narrow the shortfall should focus only on spending. The only fair deal is a straight trade: relief from the automatic cuts in return for reductions to entitlements. Yet there’s no incentive for Democrats to go along.

All of these statements are accepted by the public and important politicians. All are false.

History suggests the new House-Senate budget committee, due to report by Dec. 13, will strike out. The deficit-reduction proposals from the Bowles-Simpson panel in 2010 didn’t lead anywhere, Congress’ two budget committees haven’t met in years, and a special leadership-designated “supercommittee” designed to prevent automatic cuts reached a stalemate.

The panel that is to convene this week must contend with this record of failure, a task compounded by misinformation. A starting — and false — premise of the public, and some politicians, is that the deficit is spiraling out of control. In a national survey by Bloomberg News last month, Americans said, by a margin of 59 percent to 10 percent, that the deficit was getting worse; this belief was held by 93 percent of Tea Party supporters.

In fact, the deficit, which reached $1.55 trillion in the 2009 fiscal year, has declined every year since and is less than half as big today.

There’s a need to cut the deficit, short and long term, Republicans say, but not by raising taxes, which were increased this year. President Obama already “got his revenues,” the House speaker, John A. Boehner, said this month.

Almost $700 billion in revenue, over 10 years, was raised when the administration and Congress agreed in January not to renew the tax cuts for the wealthy enacted under President George W. Bush.

What the speaker doesn’t say is that recent measures, including the automatic spending cuts, would reduce outlays by more than $2 trillion over 10 years, or three times more than the higher taxes would generate. The Bowles-Simpson proposal envisioned a ratio of spending cuts to tax increases of less than 2-to-1.

A few Republicans, including Representative Tom Cole of Oklahoma, recognize that revenue must be on the table to get anything done on entitlements.

Other Republicans insist they can trade some easing of the sequestration for entitlement cuts. Yet the most specific suggestions — adjusting cost-of-living increases for Social Security and other programs and means-testing Medicare — have come from the White House.

Moreover, that trade isn’t an even one, substantively or politically. Long-term entitlement reductions are more valuable, and important, than cuts in discretionary programs, which can be reversed in annual appropriations. And more than a few Republicans are upset about the automatic cuts, which this year disproportionately crimp defense spending. At the same time, liberals like Senator Bernie Sanders, a Vermont independent who serves on the budget panel, are being shortsighted by insisting that entitlement changes are off the table. Trade-offs, including on revenue, are the only way to alleviate — for now — the painful cuts to domestic programs. Entitlements are the drivers of long-term debt; delaying action, the Congressional Budget Office says, “would increase the size of the policy adjustments needed.”

The committee faces two options: Failure, as happened with the previous supercommittee, which would leave the automatic cuts in place, or agreeing to a short-term — say, two-year — package of $200 billion in entitlement cuts and new revenue that would replace much of the sequestration. That’s achievable, though unlikely, without any violation of principles. Cracking down on indefensible tax breaks — special treatment of carried interest — and trimming a few write-offs would keep alive the chance for more radical tax overhauls later and wouldn’t much affect marginal rates.

Democrats could go along with the scope of entitlement cuts while altering some White House proposals. For example, Bob Reischauer, former director of the Congressional Budget Office and a hawk on entitlements, worries the cost-of-living adjustments could ultimately hurt older retirees and people with disabilities. There are remedies, he says, such as giving these senior citizens a one-time bump in payments or means-testing some benefits.

The already long odds of success become impossible if realities continue to be distorted. “Everyone is entitled to his own opinions,” Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan used to say, “but not to his own facts.”

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Tentative Deal Hands JPMorgan Chase a Record Penalty

BY BEN PROTESS AND JESSICA SILVER-GREENBERG

Leslye Davis/The New York TimesA Chase branch in Manhattan. The multibillion dollar deal would represent something of a reckoning for Wall Street, whose outsize risk-taking in the mortgage business nearly toppled the economy in 2008.

Updated, 8:06 p.m. |

JPMorgan Chase and the Justice Department have reached a tentative $13 billion settlement over the bank’s questionable mortgage practices leading up to the financial crisis, people briefed on the talks said on Saturday. It would be a record penalty that would cap weeks of heated negotiating and underscore the extent of the bank’s legal woes.

The deal, which the Justice Department took the lead in negotiating and which came together after a Friday night call involving Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. and JPMorgan’s chief executive, Jamie Dimon, would resolve an array of state and federal investigations into the bank’s sale of troubled mortgage investments. That type of investment, securities typically backed by subprime home loans, was at the heart of the financial crisis.

While the deal would put those civil cases to rest, it would not save JPMorgan from a parallel criminal inquiry from federal prosecutors in California, the people briefed on the talks said. Under the terms of the preliminary deal, the people said, the bank would also have to assist prosecutors with an investigation into former employees who helped create the mortgage investments.

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The $13 billion deal, which could still fall apart over issues like how much wrongdoing the bank is willing to acknowledge, would represent something of a reckoning for Wall Street, whose outsize risk taking in the mortgage business nearly toppled the economy in 2008. It might also provide a measure of catharsis to the investing public, which suffered billions of dollars in losses from buying bad mortgage securities.

For the Justice Department, often criticized for being soft on big banks, the deal suggests that the Obama administration’s crackdown on Wall Street has gained some momentum in recent months.

It comes less than three months after federal prosecutors and the F.B.I. in Manhattan announced a criminal indictment of the hedge fund SAC Capital, which was accused of permitting a “systematic” insider-trading scheme to unfold from 1999 to 2010. The hedge fund, according to people briefed on the case, is currently negotiating a plea deal that would force it to plead guilty to criminal misconduct and pay more than $1 billion in penalties.

The cost to JPMorgan, the nation’s biggest bank, goes beyond the bottom line. The settlement would deal a reputational blow to the bank and Mr. Dimon, who steered JPMorgan through the crisis without a quarterly loss or major government scuffle. Now Mr. Dimon’s tenure is engulfed in turmoil, the consequence of fighting a multifront battle with federal authorities scrutinizing everything from a $6 billion trading loss in London last year to the bank’s hiring of well-connected employees in China.

In the mortgage case, the size of the penalty underpins its importance. The $13 billion penalty, according to one of the people briefed on the talks, would include about $9 billion in fines and $4 billion in relief for struggling homeowners.

Some defense lawyers question whether the government is going too far in demanding that sum. A $13 billion penalty would be more than half what JPMorgan earned in profits last year. The lawyers also note that some of the mortgage securities in question are not JPMorgan’s. Rather, the bank inherited the liabilities when it bought Bear Stearns and Washington Mutual in 2008, at the height of the financial crisis.

Jason Reed/ReutersJamie Dimon, JPMorgan’s chief and chairman, said the bank’s legal costs would be unpredictable in the coming quarters.

A spokesman for JPMorgan declined to comment. Brian Fallon, a Justice Department spokesman, also declined to comment.

The penalty, if approved, would surpass other major Wall Street settlements and represent the largest fine that a single company has ever paid in settling with the Justice Department. HSBC, for example, agreed to a $1.9 billion penalty last year over money laundering accusations. BP paid $4.5 billion for its role in the huge oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

The JPMorgan penalty also eclipses what the bank previously offered to pay. Until now, the bank was offering about $11 billion in total. And it refused to increase its offer unless the California authorities dropped the criminal investigation into the bank’s sale of troubled mortgage securities to investors.

But the bank, one of the people briefed on the talks said, tentatively backed down from that demand, a major victory for the government and one that allows the Justice Department to pursue its criminal investigation of JPMorgan.

The preliminary deal materialized late on Friday after Mr. Holder spoke on the phone to the bank’s top executives, including Mr. Dimon, and the general counsel, Stephen M. Cutler, one person said. Mr. Holder told Mr. Dimon that he could not shut down the criminal investigation, reiterating an argument he made when the two met last month in Washington. The associate attorney general, Tony West, was also at that meeting and on the phone call Friday night.

One significant obstacle stands in the way of a deal: whether JPMorgan will admit to all of the improper actions cited by the Justice Department. Banks are typically loath to acknowledge wrongdoing, fearing it could expose them to a raft of shareholder lawsuits.

Mr. West and Mr. Cutler are negotiating over a statement of facts in the case that would address the wrongdoing issue, the people briefed on the talks said. Those negotiations could hit a snag if JPMorgan seeks to limit the conduct that the Justice Department wants to include.

An eye-popping fine is a political no-brainer for the Justice Department, a move that could somewhat appease a public that is skeptical of Wall Street’s influence in Washington.

But some public interest groups continue to question why no top Wall Street executives have been charged criminally for the risky acts that triggered the crisis. The government also prefers to settle with big companies rather indict them, fearing that criminal charges could unnerve the broader economy.

The government investigations into JPMorgan, which focus on securities the bank sold from 2005 to 2007, raised questions about whether JPMorgan had failed to fully warn investors about the risks of the deals.

One of the largest pieces of the $13 billion deal could come from a settlement with the Federal Housing Finance Agency. The agency sued JPMorgan over loans it had sold to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the government-controlled mortgage finance companies.

The settlement would also resolve a case related to Bear Stearns, the people briefed on the matter said, a lawsuit that has pitted the New York attorney general against JPMorgan.

Eric T. Schneiderman, the New York attorney general, sued JPMorgan last October, saying Bear Stearns and its lending unit, EMC Mortgage, had duped investors who bought mortgage securities assembled by the companies from 2005 through 2007. Through a deal backstopped by the government, JPMorgan bought Bear Stearns in 2008.

Mr. Dimon has called the lawsuit unfair, arguing that JPMorgan should not be penalized for buying Bear Stearns.

Yet JPMorgan’s board, faced with regulatory problems, one more vexing than the next, is eager to strike a conciliatory stance. Toward that end, the bank’s board approved the payment of about $1 billion in fines to government authorities so it could resolve investigations into the trading loss in London and an inquiry into the bank’s credit card products.

JPMorgan admitted wrongdoing to the Securities and Exchange Commission, which cited the bank for a breakdown in controls, and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, which accused the bank of “employing a manipulative device” with its high volume of trading.

While a settlement will go a ways toward wrapping up a number of JPMorgan’s mortgage-related issues, the bank is still weathering a broad wave of scrutiny. With the bank’s legal woes escalating — at least seven federal agencies, several state regulators and two foreign countries are investigating the bank — JPMorgan announced this month that it would have to allot $9.2 billion to cover legal expenses alone. The huge legal bill led the bank to report its first quarterly loss under Mr. Dimon’s leadership.

Amid the swirl of legal problems, some people within JPMorgan have privately questioned whether Mr. Dimon could survive a push by shareholders to divest him of the dual titles — chairman and chief executive — that he holds.

But he survived such a push this year, having secured nearly 70 percent of the votes. And even if a majority of shareholders voted to split the roles, it would be a nonbinding measure.

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With the Treasury Department warning that it could run out of money to pay national obligations within a day, the Senate voted overwhelmingly on Wednesday evening, 81 to 18, to approve a proposal hammered out by the chamber’s Republican and Democratic leaders after the House on Tuesday was unable to move forward with any resolution. The House followed suit a few hours later, voting 285 to 144 to approve the Senate plan, which would fund the government through Jan. 15 and raise the debt limit through Feb. 7.

Mr. Obama signed the bill about 12:30 a.m. Thursday.

Most House Republicans opposed the bill, but 87 voted to support it. The breakdown showed that Republican leaders were willing to violate their informal rule against advancing bills that do not have majority Republican support in order to end the shutdown. All 198 Democrats voting supported the measure.

Mr. Obama, speaking shortly after the Senate vote, praised Congress, but he said he hoped the damaging standoff would not be repeated.

“We’ve got to get out of the habit of governing by crisis,” said Mr. Obama, who urged Congress to proceed not only with new budget negotiations, but with immigration changes and a farm bill as well. “We could get all these things done even this year, if everybody comes together in a spirit of, how are we going to move this country forward and put the last three weeks behind us?”

After the House vote, officials announced that the federal government would reopen on Thursday and that federal employees should return to work.

The result of the impasse that threatened the nation’s credit rating was a near total defeat for Republican conservatives, who had engineered the budget impasse as a way to strip the new health care law of funding even as registration for benefits opened Oct. 1 or, failing that, to win delays in putting the program into place.

The shutdown sent Republican poll ratings plunging, cost the government billions of dollars and damaged the nation’s international credibility. Mr. Obama refused to compromise, leaving Republican leaders to beg him to talk, and to fulminate when he refused. For all that, Republicans got a slight tightening of income verification rules for Americans accessing new health insurance exchanges created by the Affordable Care Act.

“We fought the good fight,” said Speaker John A. Boehner of Ohio, who has struggled to control the conservative faction in the House, in an interview with a Cincinnati radio station. “We just didn’t win.”

In a brief closed session with his Republican rank and file, Mr. Boehner told members to hold their heads high, go home, get some rest and think about how they could work better as a team.

Two weeks of relative cohesion broke down into near chaos on Tuesday when Republican leaders failed twice to unite their troops behind a last-gasp effort to prevent a default on their own terms. By Wednesday, House conservatives were accusing more moderate Republicans of undercutting their position. Representative Charlie Dent of Pennsylvania, a leading Republican voice for ending the fight, said Congress should have passed a bill to fund the government without policy strings attached weeks ago.

“That’s essentially what we’re doing now,” Mr. Dent said. “People can blame me all they want, but I was correct in my analysis and I’d say a lot of those folks were not correct in theirs.”

Under the agreement to reopen the government, the House and Senate are directed to hold talks and reach accord by Dec. 13 on a long-term blueprint for tax and spending policies over the next decade. Mr. Obama said consistently through the standoff that he was willing to have a wide-ranging budget negotiation once the government was reopened and the debt limit raised.

Mr. Boehner and his leadership team had long felt that they needed to allow their restive conference to pitch a battle over the president’s health care law, a fight that had been brewing almost since the law was passed in 2010. Now, they hope the fever has broken, and they can negotiate on issues where they think they have the upper hand, like spending cuts and changes to entitlement programs.

But there were no guarantees that Congress would not be at loggerheads again by mid-January, and there is deep skepticism in both parties that Representative Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin and Senator Patty Murray of Washington, who will lead the budget negotiations, can bridge the chasm between them.

“This moves us into the next phase of the same debate,” said Senator Richard J. Durbin of Illinois, the second-ranking Democrat. “Our hope is now that Speaker Boehner and his caucus have played out their scenario with a tragic outcome, perhaps they’ll be willing to be more constructive.”

As Republican lawmakers left the closed meeting Wednesday, some were already thinking of the next fight.

“I’ll vote against it,” said Representative John C. Fleming, Republican of Louisiana, referring to the Senate plan. “But that will get us into Round 2. See, we’re going to start this all over again.”

Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Republican leader who was instrumental in ending the crisis, stressed that under the deal he had negotiated with the majority leader, Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the across-the-board budget cuts extracted in the 2011 fiscal showdown remained in place over the objections of some Democrats, a slim reed that not even he claimed as a significant victory.

The deal, Mr. McConnell said, “is far less than many of us hoped for, quite frankly, but it’s far better than what some had sought.”

“Now it’s time for Republicans to unite behind other crucial goals,” he added.

Chastened Senate Republicans said they hoped the outcome would be a learning experience for the lawmakers in the House and the Senate who shut down the government in hopes of gutting the health law, Mr. Obama’s signature domestic achievement. Instead of using the twin issues of government funding and borrowing authority to address the drivers of the federal deficit, conservatives focused on a law they could never undo as long as Mr. Obama is president, several lawmakers said.

“Goose egg, nothing, we got nothing,” said Representative Thomas H. Massie, Republican of Kentucky.

Senator Richard Burr of North Carolina took a swipe at his fellow Republican senators Ted Cruz of Texas and Mike Lee of Utah, as well as House members who linked government financing to defunding the health care law, which is financed by its own designated revenues and spending cuts.

“Let’s just say sometimes learning what can’t be accomplished is an important long-term thing,” Mr. Burr said, “and hopefully for some of the members they’ve learned it’s impossible to defund mandatory programs by shutting down the federal government.”

While Mr. Cruz conceded defeat, he did not express contrition.

“Unfortunately, the Washington establishment is failing to listen to the American people,” he said as he emerged from a meeting of Senate Republicans called to ratify the agreement.

For hundreds of thousands of federal workers across the country furloughed from their jobs, the legislative deal meant an abrupt end to their forced vacation as the government comes back to life beginning Thursday.

In a statement late Wednesday, Sylvia Mathews Burwell, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, made the reopening official.

“Employees should expect to return to work in the morning,” she said, adding they should check news reports and the Office of Personnel Management’s Web site for updates.

For Mr. Boehner, who had failed to unite his conference around a workable plan, Wednesday’s decision to take up the Senate bill proved surprisingly free of conflict. Hard-line Republican lawmakers largely rallied around the speaker.

Representative Raúl R. Labrador of Idaho, said he was “really proud” of how Mr. Boehner had handled the situation. “I’m more upset with my Republican conference, to be honest with you,” he said.

Michael D. Shear contributed reporting